A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . from Jedburgh, and53 (S. S. E.) from Edinburgh ;containing about 8000 inha-bitants, of whom about 7000are in the burgh. This place,the name of which simplydenotes a village or townin the bend of a river, is ofremote antiquity, and is ge-nerally supposed to have been originally of Saxon foun-dation ; but very lit
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . from Jedburgh, and53 (S. S. E.) from Edinburgh ;containing about 8000 inha-bitants, of whom about 7000are in the burgh. This place,the name of which simplydenotes a village or townin the bend of a river, is ofremote antiquity, and is ge-nerally supposed to have been originally of Saxon foun-dation ; but very little of its history is known prior tothe commencement of the fourteenth century. The firstauthentic notice of the burgh occurs in a charter grantedby Robert Bruce; and the barony, together with thatof Sprouston, appears to have been conferred by DavidII. on Thomas de Murray, from whom it descended,during that kings reign, to Maurice, Earl of the early part of the fifteenth century, it became theproperty of Sir William Douglas, who, for his gallantservices in the wars of the border, obtained from James charter, confirming to him the lands of Hawick, andbestowing also those of Selkirk and Drumlanrig. Thebarony remained for many generations in the possession 4 B 2. Burgh Seal. H A W I H A W t of his descendants, of whom Sir William Douglas wasia 1639 created Earl of Queensberry, Viscount Drum-lanrig, aud Lord Hawick. It subsequently became theproperty of the Scott family, who continued to exerciselordly authority over their feudatories till the year 17-17,when, on the final abolition of heritable jurisdictions, theDuke of Buccleuch received from parliament the sum of£400, as a compensation. During the border warfare, the town suffered repeateddevastation. In 1418 it was burnt by the forces underSir Robert UmfraviUe, governor of Berwick, and in 1544was laid waste by the troops of Sir Ralph Evers and SirBrian Latoun. In 1570, to prevent its occupation bythe English
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